Now teacher attendance is mandatory. As usual I do not understand either of the two decisions. What is this going to accomplish? Will it force the non-performers to teach and do research? All it will do is that once a day they will make a trip to their center and sign in. Big deal. It will waste little bit of petrol but if it satisfies the powers, what can one say?
The other issue is even more mind-boggling. Apparently, our exam is going to be now conducted in multiple choice questions. How do you evaluate a language or a social science student or a international relations who is applying for Ph.D in multiple choice format? How do you evaluate their ability to make an argument and defend it in multiple choice format? In sciences itself, where it is easy to design questions in this format, we struggle with the kind of students we get. Most often they possess absolutely no communication skills, many of them do rote-learning, many of them do guesswork, and when they join the program it becomes an uphill task to make them read, think and ask questions. But in social sciences or languages...I give up!
As usual there will be no debate on this issue. It has been decided by the administration so we just have to follow it.
Ugh!
The other issue is even more mind-boggling. Apparently, our exam is going to be now conducted in multiple choice questions. How do you evaluate a language or a social science student or a international relations who is applying for Ph.D in multiple choice format? How do you evaluate their ability to make an argument and defend it in multiple choice format? In sciences itself, where it is easy to design questions in this format, we struggle with the kind of students we get. Most often they possess absolutely no communication skills, many of them do rote-learning, many of them do guesswork, and when they join the program it becomes an uphill task to make them read, think and ask questions. But in social sciences or languages...I give up!
As usual there will be no debate on this issue. It has been decided by the administration so we just have to follow it.
Ugh!
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